Broken Strings

It was a song of exile, played and sung in the desert.

Could a snapped string foretell an inevitable, irreversible slaughter?

The palace's bloody infighting and the royal court's deadly schemes could not be avoided. A bloodshed incident implicated an ordinary person.

Was the broken string for him?

The string snapped beneath her fingers.

Where could it fly?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.